DENVER  You've got North Carolina and North Dakota, so why not Northern Colorado?

Voters in several rural Colorado counties will be asked whether they want to form a new state tentatively named Northern Colorado in the November election, a reaction to the Democrat-controlled state legislature's "war on rural Colorado."

The Weld County Commissioners voted unanimously at Monday's meeting to place a measure on the Nov. 5 ballot asking voters whether they want the county to join other rural counties in forming another state.

"The concerns of rural Coloradans have been ignored for years," William Garcia, chairman of the Weld County Commissioners, said in a statement. "The last session was the straw that broke the camel's back for many people. They want change. They want to be heard."

Three other rural counties  Cheyenne, Sedgwick and Yuma  also plan to place the 51st state referendum on the fall ballot. At least three more counties plan to consider the proposal this week at their commission meetings, said Jeffrey Hare, spokesman for the 51st State Initiative.

Known for its agriculture and oil and gas production, Weld is the largest of the Colorado counties exploring a break with the state after the legislature's sharp turn to the left with bills restricting access to firearms and doubling the state's renewable-energy mandate for rural areas.

The fight against the obuma fascists is happening on the local and state levels. For conservatives complaining that nothing is happening to fight the rat criminals, here’s one example. Let’s see if the mammon-worshipping conservatives get off their butts, organize, elect leadership and support these Colorado patriots.

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posted on 08/20/2013 4:43:09 AM PDT
by sergeantdave
(No, I don't have links for everything I post)

I like the idea of gerrymandering the states to create new and conservative states. Leave the urban blight to the libs and let them wallow in their own self-destruction. The large cities have ruled national elections too long. For instance, in Ohio, we have 88 counties. In 2008, 67 of these counties went to John McCain, but the largest ones - Hamilton, Franklin and Cuyahoga are the most populace, so our state went blue. This shouldn’t be.

“Liberal cities are known havens and cesspool petrie dishes of terrorism and Marxism.”........

You must be from Madison or Milwaukee, Wisconsin since those two cities certainly fit the description.

About 40 years back, northern Wisconsin folks contemplated forming a new state called “State of Superior”. The plan included Upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and No. Eastern Minnesota. Obviously, it didn't happen.

Its the war on conservative Colorado, not the war on rural Colorado. There is no way for my deeply conservative county to be contiguous with the possible break away counties. If this does go through, I wont be the only one considering a move to the north.....

While I support the idea of Northern Colorado, I really don’t see this happening until the Dems are no longer in power in the State. Perhaps a better fix would be to change the State Senate so that each county has one Senator representing them. This would require a change to the state Constitution and likely just as difficult.

With 64 counties, there would be only about 6 “city” like counties, greatly reducing the power of the cities in the legislative process. Currently the CO State Senate has 35 members (4 years per term, two term limit). Current make up is 20 Dems and 15 Republicans. If the two recall elections are successful, the mix will change to 18 Dems and 17 Republicans heading into the 2014 elections.

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